Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 631
Shouchun on the other side.

When the good news came, Wang Zheng had already gone to bed in the trainer's room, but when he heard the news, he got up and went to the study immediately. Gan Ning's messenger presented the dew cloth. After he opened it and looked at it, he couldn't help smiling, and immediately asked the messenger: " The Lubu said that more than a thousand people were beheaded, how could there be only this number of people?"

Nanchang is the prefecture of Yuzhang, and logically the defenders should not be less than 3000. In addition, Gan Ning did not bring many troops with him this time, so it is impossible to leave too many prisoners in case of accidents. It is reasonable to behead two or [-] people, and according to the usual practice, whenever the enemy is killed on the battlefield, the number of killed enemies written on the victory report is always inconsistent with the actual number of killed enemies. Will actually kill thousands of enemies, but thousands of people are written on the Lubu.

This is not all because the generals want to falsely report their achievements and receive rewards, because there are two kinds of military newspapers and Lubu. What the soldiers listened to was to boost morale and at the same time deter the enemy, all for their own sake.

Therefore, Wang Zheng asked this question.

"Report to Zhou Mu." The emissary replied respectfully: "At first, General Gan planned to write about Lubu according to the usual practice, but he was dissuaded by Captain Taishi."

"Oh?" Wang Zheng became interested, and asked sideways, "What did Tai Shici say?"

"Lieutenant Taishi said: If you kill the enemy's army, you can double the prestige of our country, but it's okay, but Yuzhang also belongs to Yangzhou. This time the army is to conquer the territory and put down the rebellion. How can the country's prestige be promoted? If Still exaggerating the number, isn’t it just showing the instability of our Yangzhou to the people and the enemy country?”

The emissary said: "General Gan thinks so, so according to Taishi Xiaowei's opinion, the number of thieves killed written on this piece of cloth is the real number."

"Well, this general also thinks so, Taishi Ziyi is indeed a pillar of talent."

Hearing this, Wang Zheng thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and asked again: "There is no mention of Yuzhang prefect Hua Xin in the Lubu, where is this man now?"

"On the day the city was broken, Hua Xin escaped by chance. According to reports from the guards, it seems that he went to Xingan County in the south."

"Xin Gan?"

Wang Zheng raised his eyebrows, opened the map and looked at it, then shook his head slightly: "This location is not suitable."

Xingan is the Xingan of Gan Province in the later Chinese dynasty. It is not a famous city or important town, but the reason why Wang Zheng thinks it is inappropriate is that it is located in the middle of Gan Province and the middle reaches of the Gan River. To put it bluntly, it not only benefits the navy, The location is too deep. If Hua Xin stays here, if the Jingzhou army rushes to help in the future, wouldn't it also go deep here?
It was impossible for Gan Ning to "lucky" escape Hua Xin in the midst of chaos. This emissary is his personal soldier and one of the insiders. He was not surprised when he heard the words, but asked: " What does Zhou Mu think?"

"You work harder. Return to Nanchang tonight and tell Gan Ning two things. First, I will send 5000 troops to the south tomorrow to help him. Try to calm down the north of Yuzhang within a month. Second."

Wang Zheng pondered for a moment, then stretched out and tapped lightly on the southwest side of the map: "Let our prefect Hua move again, to Yichun."

"promise!"

After the envoy left, Wang Zheng still stayed in the study. At this time, he had completely lost his sleepiness. He read Lubu and the military newspaper carefully, pondered for a moment, and called out: "Come here, please forget about Fengxiao." , Let Jiujiang prefect Lu Ji enter the palace to meet me."

Half an hour later, there were footsteps outside the door, but it was Lu Ji who immediately got up and changed his clothes after hearing the news, and rushed over in a hurry: "Mr. Lu Ji pays his respects to the lord."

Wang Zheng took the initiative to stand up to greet him, and said softly, "Gong Ji is here, and he greeted you late at night, has it ever disturbed your slumber?"

"Never, never, the minister was just dealing with official documents and didn't fall asleep." Lu Ji hurriedly replied: "My lord, I don't know why I summoned you?"

Seeing Lu Ji's sleepy eyes, Wang Zheng laughed, pretending not to know, and just passed Lu Bu over, "Hua Xin has long been disobedient, Gan Ning and Tai Shici have already defeated the bandits on the front line and conquered Nanchang a few days ago."

Lu Ji was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and immediately bowed to congratulate him: "General Gan is really brave, congratulations, my lord." But he understood in his heart that such a good news would not allow Wang Zheng to summon him late at night and look up at his face. Hey, looking closely at his expression, he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he tentatively asked, "Could it be that General Gan will return to the city soon to offer up prisoners, should I prepare in advance?"

"Yuzhang hasn't been finalized yet, what is he going to do when he returns to Shouchun?"

Wang Zheng couldn't help laughing, looked at Lu Ji, and suddenly asked: "By the way, when I was going to attend Gongjin's wedding banquet, I discovered something. Why did your nephew go to Wancheng?"

"My lord."

Lu Ji explained: "This kid has always admired the majesty of the lord, so he has long had the heart to join the army. He met the governor of Zhou because of a chance encounter in Shouchun before, and it was like old friends at first sight. Therefore, when General Zhou went to Wancheng to take up his post, he Followed."

"I see." Wang Zheng nodded, and asked casually, "Then why did he suddenly change his name to Lu Xun? I seem to remember that his original name was Lu Yi, right?"

"Forehead."

This time, Lu Ji was stumped. Lu Xun decided to change his name without authorization. He did not agree with it, and the reasons he gave were even more ridiculous and could not be announced to the public. He acted recklessly, and because he left in a hurry, I still don't know the reason."

That's it.
Wang Zheng nodded slightly. In fact, he should have asked Lu Xun, who is the best person, but he didn't pay attention at the beginning. When he heard that Lu Xun changed his name, he thought it was just a homonym. I didn't really connect it directly with the Toshihiko who was a general and a prime minister in Soochow in history. After all, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Xun's first appearance was the Battle of Yiling decades later, and that He was still the image of a young scholar at all times, logically at least two generations behind people like Zhou Yu and Lu Su.

But after returning to Shouchun, he checked the list of officials in Wancheng, and when he found that it was really the word "Xiao", he became a little suspicious. Thinking about it today, on a whim, he just asked him to enter the palace for questioning.

In fact, from this incident, it can be seen that Lu Ji's status in Wang Zheng's heart is indeed not high. To put it bluntly, he did not regard him as one of his own.

Whenever I think about Guo Jia, I will think about the time and whether it is suitable. I am afraid that it will delay the other party's rest. At this time, Lu Ji doesn't care about it. Whenever I want to ask, you have to give me the answer!
Of course, this is not the only thing. After all, since he thought that Lu Xun might be that "Lu Xun", Wang Zheng naturally took a different look at Lu Ji, a "nobody".
"Gong Ji, now that Nanchang is lost, Hua Xin has nowhere to live, so he must be in a state of panic. He has already sent people to Jingzhou to ask for help. In the near future, our army and the Jingzhou army will face each other in Yuzhang."

"Under the majesty of the lord, all the heroes will be intimidated." Hearing this, Lu Ji's expression became serious, and he said solemnly: "It is even more strategizing and planning for many days. In my opinion, the next battle will be won!"

"If it's a head-on battle," Wang Zheng smiled slightly, "the general will naturally be full of confidence, but there is one thing that makes me hesitate."

Lu Ji was taken aback: "Why is my lord hesitating?"

"I don't know about Gongji. A few days ago, Ben will receive a report from the secret secretary."

"Secret report from Benming Division?" Hearing this name, Lu Ji was startled: "What did you say?"

"The secret report came from Jingzhou. The letter said that Liu Biao suddenly yelled at the general in the mansion not long ago, and even turned his anger on the servants in the mansion. Among them, more than a dozen people from Qingzhou were killed by his stick."

Speaking of this, Wang Zheng paused, and said meaningfully to Lu Ji: "Afterwards, sentry cavalry came to report that there were signs of a large number of troops being mobilized in the border counties of Changsha and Jiangxia counties."

"There is such a thing?" Lu Ji was very surprised when he heard it: "My lord, you mean that when our army intends to go south, Jingzhou already knew in advance?"

"That's right." Wang Zheng nodded slightly: "Now, Gongji has guessed the person he was hesitating in his heart?"

Speaking of this, Lu Ji didn't understand why, "The lord is worried that someone in Shouchun will communicate with the enemy and inform the enemy?"

"It's not just internal communication with external enemies. Although Jingzhou is connected to seven counties, the scale of this battle is very large, and it needs to mobilize the manpower and material resources of the entire Yangzhou. However, because of the seriousness of the matter, let alone ordinary people, ordinary soldiers are just some generals and county magistrates. , and at most can only guess that there may be a foreign war within the year, but it may not be possible to guess where the will intend to send troops."

"My lord is right. If there is a thief inside, it must be a person of high rank?" Lu Ji deeply agreed, and asked again: "Did Mi Gong find out the source of the leak?"

"The general has asked him to send capable people to Xiangyang to investigate carefully, but there is nothing yet." Wang Zheng glanced at Lu Ji and asked, "Time is urgent, Gong Ji, you should also pay attention to this matter."

Wang Zheng said he was paying attention, but Lu Ji knew that his Jiujiang prefect was doing his part. If there were internal thieves, the probability of Jiangdong's local civil and military appearing would naturally be greater. Think about it this way, "My lord, if there are indeed internal thieves and they are dignitaries, will the strategy of attacking the thorns drawn up by the Ba Mansion also need to be changed?"

"What's your opinion?" Wang Zheng smiled and asked gently.

Just six words, but it lifted Lu Ji's spirit!
After all, if this is the case, in the past, it would probably only fall into the ears of Guo Jia. God is pitiful, but today it is finally his turn, Lu Ji.
Naturally, Lu Ji didn't dare to neglect such an opportunity. After thinking for a long time, he said slowly and carefully: "How to change the marching strategy, let's not talk about it. There are three conditions."

"In other words, only when two things are confirmed and three conditions are met can our army make a decision to change its strategy."

"Oh?"

Looking at Lu Ji with great interest, Wang Zheng said happily, "What two things, and what three conditions?"

"The first thing to do is to confirm whether Liu Biao knew about the matter and whether it was leaked by me in Yangzhou. The second most important thing is how Liu Biao will prevent it if he has taken precautions."

"Why did Gong Ji say that?" Wang Zheng was taken aback, "If it wasn't an internal thief, how would Liu Biao know?"

"My lord, I forgot. Jingzhou sent a mission to congratulate us on our wedding day." Lu Ji explained, "The war of destroying the country involved too many things. possible."

"The envoy?" Wang Zheng recalled for a moment, then shook his head and laughed, "I don't look like a virtuous person."

This envoy from Jingzhou, Wang Zheng, has seen him several times, but he has no impression of him at all. Now he even forgot his name. He is obviously a nobody, and also an incompetent person. Not to mention that he doesn't have the ability to find clues from clues, so what if he finds out?Didn't Mi Fang swear that this person has been bribed?

However, Lu Ji's next sentence made his smile froze, "Master, if this person is really talented and loyal to Liu Biao, he may deliberately hide his front or even show his clumsiness in order to find out the reality of my Yangzhou."

Hidden front and exposed clumsiness?

That is to say, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?
Lu Ji's words made Wang Zheng think of Dong Zhao, the fat messenger Cao Cao sent to Xiapi. If Zhang Zhao hadn't reminded him, he would have been concealed by this person. Ji's words are not unreasonable, this person's stay in Shouchun was not short, if you really want to investigate carefully and deliberately show weakness, it is not surprising that he finds something."

"Besides, in my Shouchun City, there are many spies from the princes from all over the world. After they found out, they were worried that their lips would die and their teeth would be cold. It is not impossible to send someone to remind Liu Biao."

Lu Ji said: "No matter what, how did Liu Biao know about this matter, we really need to investigate clearly."

"En." Wang Zhenglue nodded, and asked again: "The second thing you said, how did Liu Biao prevent it, and what did you mean?"

"How to prevent, one is how many soldiers and horses to use."

Lu Ji explained: "Since moving the capital to Xu County, Cao Cao has been mobilizing his troops. The world knows that he has the heart of plotting against Nanyang. Therefore, in recent years, Liu Biao has stationed far more troops in Jingbei's defense line than Jingnan. Even if he knows that the Lord wants to go south, he will It is impossible to immediately draw out all the troops in Jingbei, otherwise we will miss the other.”

"Well," Wang Zheng immediately understood and nodded repeatedly, "If the front door drives out the tiger and the back door lets in the wolves, that would be in vain."

"My lord's words are very apt and vivid."

Lu Ji's eyes lit up, and after a quick flattery, he continued: "Our army not only needs to check out the strength of the defense line in the south of Jingzhou, but also check out the actual situation of its troops, such as Jiangxia's Xiling, E County, Jingzhou How many soldiers and horses are stationed in the army, how many days can the food storage in these places last, and who are the generals who lead the army, etc. "

Xiling and Exian County were the targets of the first wave of raids in the future as mentioned in Fanglue. Wang Zheng nodded when he heard it, and even thought of a deeper level.

"Not bad, not only that, but we also need to find out if we attack one of the cities, how long will the other cities receive the news, and how many reinforcements will be called?"

"Where are the reinforcements most likely to come from, and who is the general who leads the reinforcements? What if the city cannot be conquered within ten days? So what if the city cannot be conquered within twenty days?"

(End of this chapter)